Miss Saigon opens-Simon Bowman interview

Title

Miss Saigon opens-Simon Bowman interview

Genre

Interview

TX Date

22 Sep 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:03:22

Description

Interview with actor, Simon Bowman, about his role as a young GI in the new musical, Miss Saigon, which has just opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. It tells the dramatic story of love and self-sacrifice involving a young Vietnamese girl and an American soldier at the time of the fall of Saigon in 1975. Female interviewer not identified (poss. Gill Pyrah).

Contributors

Gill Pyrah?; Simon Bowman

Keywords

Actors; London; Musical theatre; Vietnam; Vietnam War (1945-1975); Theatre Royal; Miss Saigon; Alain Boublil; Claude-Michel Schonberg

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